REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 



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crease from the 1st to the 15th of that month. The distribution is 

 quite evenly divided among the months of September to May, inchi- 

 sive. It ranged from 18.6 per cent in November to 3.2 per cent in 

 April. At the end of the season, on May 1, 1917, about 2J per cent 

 of the season's holdings still remained in storage, making a carry- 

 over of twice the amount of the previous season. 



Table 4. — JilontJily cold-storage holdings of creamery hutter during the season 

 of 1916 and 1917, and comparisons icith holdings of preceding months. 



Date. 



Storages 

 reporting. 



Comparative holdings: 



Current 

 month. 



Preceding 

 month. 



Increase or decrease. 



June 1, 1916. 

 July 1, 1916. 

 Aug. 1, 1916. 

 Sept. 1, 1916 

 Oct. 1,1916. 

 Nov. 1, 1916. 

 Dec. 1, 1916. 

 Jan. 1, 1917 . 

 Feb. 1,1917. 

 Mar. 1, 1917. 

 Apr. 1, 1917. 

 May 1, 1917. 



173 

 173 

 184 

 233 

 251 

 303 

 293 

 248 

 249 

 257 

 265 

 252 



6,760,071 

 52,576,210 

 98, 132, 744 

 104, 950, 786 

 97, 092, 876 

 83,248,135 

 64, 632, 056 

 42,787,367 

 29,982,089 

 15,467,475 

 6,208,763 

 2,553,912 



1,064,464 



6, 782, 641 



52,816,057 



101,606,527 



105,285,506 



98, 758, 024 



83,687,857 



60,377,710 



45,753,022 



29, 808, 296 



15,679,464 



6, 046, 958 



Pounds. 

 + 5,695,607 

 +45, 793, 569 

 +45,316,687 

 + 3,344,259 



- 8,192,630 

 —15, 509, 8S9 

 -19,055,801 

 -17,590,343 

 -15,770,933 

 -14,340,821 



- 9,470,701 



- 3,493,046 



Per cent. 

 +535. 

 +675. 

 + 85. 

 + 3. 



- 7. 



- 15. 



- 22. 



- 29. 



- 34. 



- 48. 



- 60. 



The cold-storage holdings of packing-stock butter for December 

 1, 1917, are shown in Table No. 5, which also shows the relative 

 amounts stored in each section. The distribution of this class of 

 butter was radically different from that of creamery butter. The 

 New England storages, which held almost one-fourth of the creamery 

 butter, carried practically no packing-stock butter. The South At- 

 lantic section, having only 1| per cent of the creamery butter, carried 

 almost one-fifth of the packing stock. The holdings of December 1, 

 1917, amounted to about three-fourths of the holdings of the previous 

 year. The amount in storage on December 1 was approximately 

 one-third of the total amount stored for the season. 



Table 5. — Cold-storage holdings of packing-stock butter as reported on 



Dec. 1, 1917. 





Total holdings Dec. 1, 1917. 



Comparison with 1916. 



Section. 



Storages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Pounds. 



Percent- 



' age in 



each 



section. 



Storages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Dec. 1, 

 1916. 



Dec. 1, 

 1917. 



Increase 



or 

 decrease. 





2 

 17 

 12 

 34 



38 

 18 

 8 

 6 



360 

 302,934 

 423, 575 

 690, 856 

 598, 112 

 161, 238 

 55, 674 

 93, 174 



0.0 



13.0 

 18.2 

 29.8 

 25.7 

 6.9 

 2.4 

 4.0 



1 

 12 



9 

 27 

 33 

 11 



4 



4 



Pounds. 



50 



550,513 



141,687 



541, 664 



973, 667 



17, 555 



12,670 



46, 171 



Pounds. 



360 



290, 363 



368,301 



463, 918 



275,273 



146, 131 



46, 326 



81, 226 



Per cent. 

 +620. 



Middle Atlantic 



— 47.3 



South Atlantic 



+159. 9 



North Central (east) 



North Central (west) 



- 14.4 



- 7L7 

 + 732.4 



Western (north) 



+265. 6 



Western (south) 



+ 75.9 







TotaL . . 



135 



2, 325, 923 



100.0 



101 



2, 283, 977 



1,671,898 



— 26.8 







